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BODY-GARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Eatented April 27, 1909.

Application filed. January.,-;1909. Serial No. 470,929.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HANS MAeNUs, a subj ect of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Im- I dition, and Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same, showing it in the condition in which it is fastened on the body of the wearer.

The front of the garment is formedof two similar flaps, 3 and 4, shown to be provided, respectively, near their free edges and about centrally between their ends, with buttons 5 and 6; and a button-hole 7 is formed, in line with the buttons, in the flap 4 near its junction with the back 8 of the garment. A brace 9 extends from the upper edge of the shoulder-portion of the garment atits unction with the flap 4, thus, at the part thereof adjacent to the right sleeve 10, and a similar brace 11 extends from the shoulder-portion of the free edge of the same flap toadapt it to be passed, when the garment is folded and fastened as hereinafter described, over the shoulder thereof from which the left sleeve The braces, which may be composed of the same fabric as the rest of the garment, or of any other suitable material, are provided in their free-end portions with button-holes 13, preferably more than one in each for purposes of adjustment.

"When the garment is put on the body the flap 4, as the outer one, ismade to overlap the flap 3, thereby bringing the button 5 coincident with the button 'hole 7, to be passed through the latter, and the button 6 adjacent to the side of the garment shown to be provided with the sleeve 12. Thereupon the brace 11 is passed obliquely across the back 8 to engage one of its button-holes 13 with the button 6 and thus fasten the flap 4 in the closed condition of thegarment, and the brace 9 is similarly passed across the backto cross the companion-brace, and is fastened at one of its button-holes 13 to the protruding button 5.

The construction of double-breasted garment thus described not only adapts it to be put on and fastened, and unfastened and removed with great facility,rbut the braces afford a support for the back of the wearer as well as a convenient and easily manipulated medium for fastening the garment, whether by the button and button-hole means shown and described, which are preferred, or by any other suitable means.

What I claim as new, and desire to se cure by Letters Patent, is

1. A body garment having its front formed of mutually overlapping flaps, and braces on the garment adapted to be passed over the shoulder-portions and crossed upon the back thereof and respectively fastened at their free ends to the outer and" inner flaps near their edge-portions.

2. A bodygarment having its front formed of mutually overlapping flaps, and

braces extending from the opposite shoulderportions of the outer flap and adapted to be passed over the shoulder portions and crossed upon the back of the garment and respectively fastened at their free endsto the outer and inner flaps near their edgeportions.

3. A body-garment having its front formed of mutually-overlapping flaps provided with buttons near their free edges, with a button-hole in the garment near the junction. with its back of the outer flap to receive the button on the inner flap, and braces extending respectively from the opposite shoulder-portions of the outer flap and adapted to be passed over the shoulder-portions and crossed on the back of the garment, said braces having button-holes in their free ends to fasten one brace on the button protruding through said first-named buttonhole and to fasten the other brace on the button upon the outer flap.

HANS MAGNUS;

In presence of K. M. CORNWALL, R. A. SCHAEFER. 

